The Arizona sentinel., 1887-03-05

law was first put into force there were number of foreigners at Gibraltar who had been allowed to live there without permit for many years. All of them had to submit to the rule requiring permit every three months, and all who were married to woman that within the preceding three months had given birth to child, living or dead, were expelled.
 The interior spectacle of the city of Gibralter is lacking in neither gaiety nor animation. In the evening the whole population is in the streets. The Moors with their white Arabi an cloaks, their red vests, their puffed pantaloons, their barn feet in Turkish slippers. jostle the redcoats; the tur- bans mingle with the white cork hats of the English. In the midst of this crowd circulate English cavaliers, Amazons, AndaluSlan muleteers with huge sombreros, and pretty bland misses with saucy straw hats. The scene is varied, picturesque and full of color. But when one lives at Gibralter the tru est pleasure is in getting out of it. In the midst of the ramparts that surround you, batteries, easements, powder factories, sentinels; with the continual discharge of cannon signal ing the opening and closing of the only gateway by which one communicates 41a Of +ho would tho sion of imprisonment becomes so strong, the need of air space and liberty so violent, that one passes this single exit merely for the sake of passing it and assuring himself that he is still free. A single road then presents itself-a road mar velously kept up by the English and constantly filled with carriages and pedestrians, which, under blazing sky, goes along the bay of Gibraltar at the left and the neutral territory at the right, and leads you in less than a quarter of an hour to the first custom house port, the first Spanish village, Linea. There the spectacle changes. In place of the English sentinels, so fresh, so ruddy, and so well fed. here are the custom-house officers with their hollow jaws and starveling air and somber and seedy uniforms. For them every conner is smuggler; but don't be afraid, they will not treat you badly. From time immemorial the smuggler has been the friend of the Spanish tax gatherer. It is he that enables him to live better than the government, which doesn't always give him his pay.
 In 1874 smuggling flourished in this part of Spain. The frontier was never worse guarded, and the customs off cers were never worse paid. Gibraltar, wiIicfI, Ts ;t free port, has at all times served as q depot for the smuggling done along this part of the coast of Spain, overfiowed with the merchandise that forms the object of this inter- dIcted traffic. The city was filled every day with caravans of mules loading with bales of goods. Just before the gate closed for the night they departed in single file for Linea. On reaching the frontier the man at the head of the line jabbered with the customs officer, while the rest hurried on. Guns were fired, and the officers made feint of opposition, but no blood was shed. Linea is miserable place of three thou sand or four thousand inhabitants, nearly all employed at Gibraltar in loading and unloading vessels. Each one on entering Gibraltar in the morn- ing receives a pass good for the day, which he gives up at night.-Paris Figaro.